Library Pay Hiked to Get Needed Help

The 31evel ess
Library Pay
Hiked to Get
Needed Help
The County Library system
has approved a new salary
schedule that will give it a
better chance to compete for
the dwindling number of professional library school graduates,
The schedule and a long list
of pay raises were approved
yesterday by the County Library Board and will become
effective in January.
They will raise the pay of
present professional staff
members by $600 to $700 a
year and increase starting pay
to $5600.
Cleveland Public Library
recently raised its starting
pay to $5480, and beginning
pay in Cleveland Heights system is $5500. County Librarian Lewis Naylor said starting
pay for librarians in some
cities is $6200.
Only 367 in Nation
"In the past year only 367
professional school graduates
went to work for public library systems throughout the
natioh," he said. "We'd like
to hire 12 or 15 librarians
right now to meet our minimum needs."
He said the new schedule
would increase the payroll by
$88,150 next year instead of
the eixpected $50,000 for the
present staff. A figure of
$54,000 for additional personnel was included in the 1964
budget requests of $2,698,-
250, also given board approval.
It is $182,000 higher than
this year's expected expenditures and includes $25,000
for furnishing a new branch
building in the Orange School
District, where voters will be
asked to pass a levy that
would raise $100,000 for a
new library building at Lander Circle in Pepper Pike.
County L i b r a r y's new
branch in Parma Heights will
open May 20, it was reported.
At its meeting, the Cleveland Library Board yesterday
chose Rockport Branch as the
site for its planned new $185,-
000 building on the old Settlement School property at
W. 140th St. and Puritas Rd.
Architects' drawings for
the new building will be submitted at the May meeting.

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The 31evel ess
Library Pay
Hiked to Get
Needed Help
The County Library system
has approved a new salary
schedule that will give it a
better chance to compete for
the dwindling number of professional library school graduates,
The schedule and a long list
of pay raises were approved
yesterday by the County Library Board and will become
effective in January.
They will raise the pay of
present professional staff
members by $600 to $700 a
year and increase starting pay
to $5600.
Cleveland Public Library
recently raised its starting
pay to $5480, and beginning
pay in Cleveland Heights system is $5500. County Librarian Lewis Naylor said starting
pay for librarians in some
cities is $6200.
Only 367 in Nation
"In the past year only 367
professional school graduates
went to work for public library systems throughout the
natioh," he said. "We'd like
to hire 12 or 15 librarians
right now to meet our minimum needs."
He said the new schedule
would increase the payroll by
$88,150 next year instead of
the eixpected $50,000 for the
present staff. A figure of
$54,000 for additional personnel was included in the 1964
budget requests of $2,698,-
250, also given board approval.
It is $182,000 higher than
this year's expected expenditures and includes $25,000
for furnishing a new branch
building in the Orange School
District, where voters will be
asked to pass a levy that
would raise $100,000 for a
new library building at Lander Circle in Pepper Pike.
County L i b r a r y's new
branch in Parma Heights will
open May 20, it was reported.
At its meeting, the Cleveland Library Board yesterday
chose Rockport Branch as the
site for its planned new $185,-
000 building on the old Settlement School property at
W. 140th St. and Puritas Rd.
Architects' drawings for
the new building will be submitted at the May meeting.